So let’s talk a little about the upcoming Team Rocket Pokemon set!
The supposed release date is April 18th. It may actually be in May though. We’ll have to see what time will tell us. We probably won’t know until we hit 2025, so a couple months out. The Pokemon Company generally sticks to its release schedule thought and the rumor is April 18th.
All the information we have right now is rumor and speculation… so you’ve got to forgive the lack of actual confirmed data. The release is just too far away right now.
The Glory of Team Rocket probably won’t be a special set but it’s not like there’s some rule forcing The Pokemon Company International to not make it a special set. We’ll have to see what the release schedule will look like for the sets coming before it before we can guess whether or not it’ll be a regular or special set. Hopefully it’ll be a regular set. If it is a special set we are all screwed. Demand for The Glory of Team Rocket is MASSIVE. People are saving up right now to buy as much product as humanly possible. If The Glory of Team Rocket is another Prismatic Evolutions or SV 151 nobody is going to get any product at MSRP.
I doubt it’ll be a special set though. The timing seems a little off with The Glory of Team Rocket coming in April / May and Prismatic Evolutions coming in January… they’re probably too close together. But like I said there is no rule. The Pokemon Company can do whatever it wants.
And we better all be hoping for a regular set so that The Pokemon Company will actually print enough to satisfy the insane demand for the set.
Honestly I’m hoping they come out with a The Glory of Team Rocket binder collection. Having a couple Team Rocket binders would be pretty cool. The product everyone will be snatching up will of course be the standard ETBs and booster bundles / boxes. I’m also wondering if there will be surprise boxes as well…
Anyway the hype for The Glory of Team Rocket is HUGE. We’re currently seeing big hype for Prismatic Evolutions, well the hype for The Glory of Team Rocket is probably 10 times as large. It’s the next 151 in people’s mind. Forget Surging Sparks this is the set to get.
Unfortunately the rumor is there will be no dark Pokemon in The Glory of Team Rocket set. Which is unfortunate because if The Pokemon Company had paired dark Pokemon with reverse holofoils like the Legendary Collection this set could have been the biggest hit of the decade.
So we’re going to have an April release date, no dark Pokemon, maybe all Team Rocket Pokemon, probably a regular set, and what will most likely end up as the most expensive set of recent memory. Well… I’m looking forward to it!